GoBlueBill

November 29th, 2016 at 7:28 PM ^

I wish this was coming more from national sources. Unfortunatly  anything that comes from Michigan about that poorly officiated game just makes it sound like we are crybabies.

Which pisses me off because we have such a legitimate gripe.

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Catchafire

November 29th, 2016 at 7:29 PM ^

Cry baby or not, the squeaky wheel gets the greese.  We need to complain about the extremely poor officiating.  Lets call it that: extremely poor officiating.

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SlickNick

November 29th, 2016 at 7:45 PM ^

I'm not a big conspiracy theorist but we will never get an apology from that snake Delaney seeing as he is as guilty as anyone in this whole ordeal. As if having referees that are Ohio St fans isn't bad enough, when I heard the Big 10 reviewed the game and found only 1 missed call...well that told me all I needed to know. Then I start thinking back to Harbaugh vs. The SEC and NCAA this summer where Delaney said NOTHING to support Harbaugh or the conference. I know Harbaugh can rub people the wrong way, and I'm curious what has been said in the past between these 2 behind closed doors. I may be imaging this but I thought I've read a quote from Bo saying he "has no use for Delaney". I'm sorry to flood this thread with an essay, but I've got a feeling one jim Delaney was never a fan of harbaugh coming back to the Big 10 in the first place. God only knows why seeing how much interest and $ he brings in to the conference. Ya obviously I'm still salty.

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M go Bru

November 30th, 2016 at 5:41 AM ^

His retirement is going to be a day of celebration for me.

He must have gone to the same PR school that Dave Brandon attended. Is their anyway we can oust him?

Listen to the podcast on Mike Spath's show "Inside the Huddle" on WTKA website titled "102 Angelo Matera HS official" on 11/28. Excellent detailed critique on the reffing of The Game.

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TruBluMich

November 29th, 2016 at 7:51 PM ^

Interesting article.  It failed to mention that one of the officials is from Michgian and his cover photo on Facebook is Lewis running in for a TD after the Northwestern Interception last year.  He is also the official who called the spot of the ball.  There are some comments made from his friends that are not very "Michigan Friendly" that he liked on his Facebook page as well.

Here's the Detroit News article with a few facts this article failed to mention.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/college/university-michigan/wol…

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victors2000

November 29th, 2016 at 7:57 PM ^

objective, to the point. What's really important is that it concerns all of college football; what a mess football would grow to be if the refs or persons in power could throw games on a regular basis. Funny how none of the OSU commenters had a positive thing to say about the article. The one guys said a ref from Michigan did the game, is that true?

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ShruteBeetFarms

November 29th, 2016 at 8:06 PM ^

I want someone to be fired and I want reform so this doesn't happen again to any team. It shouldn't be difficult to have a vetting process in place. This crew should have worked a game from the other division. Policy was broken so someone fucked up.

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pinkfloyd2000

November 29th, 2016 at 8:30 PM ^

...that if the shoe was on the other foot, if the game had been in AA, and if it had ended the same way, only with the teams/outcome reversed, and with two refs who were lifelong Michigan fans, there would be widespread bitching and moaning. Our win would have been overshadowed completely by the fallout.

But here? I guess no one but us gives a shit.

It ain't sour grapes, as the article points out. It's much more than that. This was shitty ON ITS FACE, way before the coin toss even happened.

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